Presentations
Several of our graduate students presented at the International
Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Conference 2005 (in Houghton, MI) on October 8th:
Panel Title: Military Brides, Immigrant Lives, and "Conservative"
Scribes: Interrogating the Silencing and (Mis)Representation of Women
Kristi Serrano (TCU): "The Non-'Issued' Voice: Listening to the Whispers of Army Wives"
Sarah Yoder (TCU): "In Search of Textual Gardens: Writing
Conviction Through Place"
Cassandra Parente(TCU): "Keeping Secrets, Telling Lies: Breaking the Triadic Silence of Italian-American Women"
Panel Title: Female Bodies
Rechelle Christie (TCU): "Body of Evidence: The Visual Rhetoric of Subversive Female Bodies" (Shelley was the only TCU presenter in this panel. Her presentation focused on reading women's tattoos as visual rhetoric.)
Jared Griffin will be delivering a paper for a panel on "Margaret Fuller and her Circle" at the northeast MLA conference in March 2006 in Philadelphia; his study is titled "Organic Hybridity: Margaret Fuller's Mysticism and Woman in the Nineteenth Century." Jared has also been asked to serve as the mediator for the panel.
Cassandra Parente will be presenting at the Conference on College Composition and Communication. Her study is titled "Lacking Literacy or Controlling Culture?: Literacy Resistance as Identity Assurance in Immigrant Communities."
Lisa Thomas will be presenting at the British Commonwealth & Postcolonial Studies Conference in February. Her project is titled “Marginalized Women: Finding a Voice in The Irish Citizen.”
We'll also have several more graduate students presenting at CCCC
2006 in March.
Moriah McCracken will be on the same panel as Cassi Parente. Moriah’s presentation is titled "Head, Heart, Health, and Hands: Literacy Practices in the Overlooked 'H' of 4-H Clubs."
Moriah is also chairing a panel for Dr. Hogg (TCU), Robert Brooke (U of Nebraska-Lincoln), Kim Donehower (U of North Dakota), and Eileen Schell (Syracuse) titled "New Writing by SWR Authors: Rural Community Activism as Rhetorical Coalition Building."
Drew Loewe is presenting a project titled "What Are We Doing When We Teach and Assess Argument?"
Reviews
Amy Milakovic reviewed Andrea Greenbaum’s Emancipatory Movements in Composition: The Rhetoric of Possibility, which was published in the Fall 2005 issue of Rhetoric Society Quarterly.
